To-morrows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DEDE FGFG HIHI EJEJ KLKM BDBD NONP QRQR STST AHAH UVUV WXWX AYAY ZOA2O| God knows all things but we | A |
| In darkness walk our ways | B |
| We wonder what will be | A |
| We ask the nights and days | B |
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| Their lips are sealed at times | C |
| The bards like prophets see | A |
| And rays rush o'er their rhymes | C |
| From suns of days to be | A |
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| They see To morrow's heart | D |
| They read To morrow's face | E |
| They grasp is it by art | D |
| The far To morrow's trace | E |
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| They see what is unseen | F |
| And hear what is unheard | G |
| And To morrow's shade or sheen | F |
| Rests on the poet's word | G |
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| As seers see a star | H |
| Beyond the brow of night | I |
| So poets scan the far | H |
| Prophetic when they write | I |
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| They read a human face | E |
| As readers read their page | J |
| The while their thought will trace | E |
| A life from youth to age | J |
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| They have a mournful gift | K |
| Their verses oft are tears | L |
| And sleepless eyes they lift | K |
| To look adown the years | M |
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| To morrows are to days | B |
| Is it not more than art | D |
| When all life's winding ways | B |
| Meet in the poet's heart | D |
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| The present meets the past | N |
| The future too is there | O |
| The first enclasps the last | N |
| And never folds fore'er | P |
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| It is not all a dream | Q |
| A poet's thought is truth | R |
| The things that are and seem | Q |
| From age far back to youth | R |
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| He holds the tangled threads | S |
| His hands unravel them | T |
| He knows the hearts and heads | S |
| For thorns or diadem | T |
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| Ask him and he will see | A |
| What your To morrows are | H |
| He'll sing What is to be | A |
| Beneath each sun and star | H |
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| To morrows Dread unknown | U |
| What fates may they not bring | V |
| What is the chord the tone | U |
| The key in which they sing | V |
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| I see a thousand throngs | W |
| To morrows for them wait | X |
| I hear a thousand songs | W |
| Intoning each one's fate | X |
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| And yours What will it be | A |
| Hush song and let me pray | Y |
| God sees it all I see | A |
| A long lone winding way | Y |
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| And more no matter what | Z |
| Crosses and crowns you wear | O |
| My song may be forgot | A2 |
| But Thou shalt not in prayer | O |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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